A little over a month ago, the Washington State Liquor Control Board released an initial draft of the regulations and restrictions that will govern the newly legal marijuana industry in Washington State.

Under Initiative 502, the initiative legalizing the use of marijuana for recreational use by adults, which was passed by Washington voters last November, the Washington State Liquor Control Board is responsible for establishing the requirements and restrictions for licensing, regulation and taxation of the marijuana industry.

The law specifically grants the WSLCB the ability to impose regulatory guidelines regarding issues such as, the facilities and equipment used in marijuana production, the packaging and labeling standards for retail sale, the potency and quality levels of the marijuana and finally the security and screening requirements for employees and licensees. Under the law, by December 1, 2013, the Liquor Control Board is required to specifically implement protocols and processes for license application and renewal for marijuana producers and retailers, determine a limit for the amount of licensed retailers and determining the maximum quantity of marijuana, marijuana facilities may have on the premises at a given time. With the release of this first draft on marijuana industry regulations, the process of determining and implementing an administrative regime to manage the newly formed marijuana industry is beginning to take shape.

The regulations were subject to a public comment period, which ended on June 10, that allowed Washingtonians to voice their concerns or recommendation for the guidelines. The board plans to file its revised rules on July 3 and a public hearing on the changes to the regulations will be held on August 7. According to the proposed time line released by the Washington State Liquor Control Board, the Board will begin accepting applications for all license types, related to the marijuana industry, by September 14.

The regulations released by the WSLCB seek to track marijuana from “seed to sale,” as to prevent diversion of legally produced marijuana into the illegal market within and outside Washington State. According to Bloomberg News, Mark Kleiman, a public policy professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has consulted Washington policy-makers on marijuana issues, stated that “the rule that the state can’t require the retailer to keep records of their purchasers seemed to encourage purchase for out of state shipment...The Washington statute, [seed to sale tracking], was designed to keep the whole matter in-state and the board is certainly very concerned about that.”

The Board has additionally adopted a point-based system to determine if applicants seeking licensure for participation in the marijuana industry, as growers distributors or retailers, are eligible based on their previous criminal history. The point system ascribes point values to various criminal offenses--any applicant seeking a marijuana license, must not have accrued more than 8 points based on the scale established by the Board. The current system allows for up to two marijuana possession misdemeanors to be waived from consideration. Certain Federal marijuana charges may be ignored on a case-by-case basis, and the system would apply to all entrepreneurs, employees and financiers.

Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Josh Brent is in Dallas County jail after testing positive for marijuana last week, violating the terms of his $100,000 bond, Selwyn Crawford of the Dallas Morning News reports.

Brent has been out on bail while awaiting trial on an intoxicated manslaughter charge following a Dec. 8, 2012 incident that claimed the life of Jerry Brown, a linebacker on the Cowboys' practice squad and Brent's former teammate at the University of Illinois. Brent's blood-alcohol level was 0.18, over twice the legal limit, when his Mercedes S600 struck a curb, overturned and caught fire.

A urinalysis test in May revealed that Brent had "tested positive for marijuana and marijuana metabolite". On May 24, Dallas County prosecutors sought to revoke Brent's bond, accusing him of either drinking alcohol or being around alcohol, both of which would be violations of his bail. The SCRAM bracelet on Brent's ankle had also failed to log data on 22 occasions.

During a bond revocation hearing on June 6, State District Judge Robert D. Burns III declined the prosecutor's request, but did order further alcohol monitoring of Brent while scheduling an additional hearing for July 19.

Whether you’ve run out of rolling materials and there’s no bong insight, or you just want to try a new way to get high, a gravity bong is your answer.

The way they’re designed you can really get some monster size hits from the gravity leaving you very high on only a little amount of weed. This bong gets its name from the force of gravity and the water pushing the THC smoke into your mouth. So get comfortable and ready to inhale as we school you on How to Make a Gravity Bong.

A two liter bottle is the best foundation for you to start this process. Then you’re going to need a larger body of water to dip the 2 liter bottle in. For this you can use a sink, the bathtub, or a bucket, anything that’s going to be larger than the 2 liter.

Next you want to cut about 1/3 off of the bottom of your bottle, a little less than halfway.

The lid of your 2 liter plays a very important role in making sure that it functions properly. Poke a hole in the cap and make it wide enough to place foil on the inside. This will be your bowl for putting in the dankness. Now with a tooth pick or something skinny poke 2-3 holes in the foil bowl, (the smoke will pour into the bottle through these holes)

Place the 2 liter inside the bucket or what have you, but make sure the bottle is already in the water before you put the weed in the bowl otherwise it’ll fly up and probably land in the water.

The next step is the one that’s going to get you higher than you’ve been all freakin’ day.

Once the bud is in the foil bowl and the bottle is in the water, begin to light the herb as you would any ordinary bowl but slowly be lifting up on the 2 liter as well. This draws all the delicious smoke into the open space of the bottle for you to inhale.

Once the bottle is milked to you liking, simply remove the cap and inhale long and deep.

There you have it stoners, a simple do-it-yourself bong that really gets you higher than you thought you would be off that little nug love. Get creative friends, and then get even higher than that.